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Mean Field Games provide a powerful framework to analyze the dynamics of a large number of controlled agents in interaction. Here we consider such systems when the interactions between agents result in a negative coordination and analyze…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-28 Thibault Bonnemain , Thierry Gobron , Denis Ullmo

Mean-field reinforcement learning (MF-RL) scales multi-agent RL to large populations by reducing each agent's dependence on others to a single summary statistic -- the mean action. However, this reduction requires every agent to act at…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shan Yang

Dynamical mean-field theory is a powerful physics tool used to analyze the typical behavior of neural networks, where neurons can be recurrently connected, or multiple layers of neurons can be stacked. However, it is not easy for beginners…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-21 Wenxuan Zou , Haiping Huang

We consider an interacting system of one-dimensional structures modelling fibers with fiber-fiber interaction in a fiber lay-down process. The resulting microscopic system is investigated by looking at different asymptotic limits of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Raul Borsche , Axel Klar , Christian Nessler , Andreas Roth , Oliver Tse

Methods like multi-agent reinforcement learning struggle to scale with growing population size. Mean-field games (MFGs) are a game-theoretic approach that can circumvent this by finding a solution for an abstract infinite population, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate

Neural computations emerge from myriads of neuronal interactions occurring in intricate spiking networks. Due to the inherent complexity of neural models, relating the spiking activity of a network to its structure requires simplifying…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-12 François Baccelli , Thibaud Taillefumier

We develop an elementary mean field approach for fully asymmetric kinetic Ising models, which can be applied to a single instance of the problem. In the case of the asymmetric SK model this method gives the exact values of the local…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Mezard , J. Sakellariou

Mean-field approximation is often used to explore the qualitative behaviour of phase transitions in classical spin models before employing computationally costly methods such as the Monte-Carlo techniques. We implement a 'lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Ondrej Hovorka , Timothy J. Sluckin

In this paper we study iterative procedures for stationary equilibria in games with large number of players. Most of learning algorithms for games with continuous action spaces are limited to strict contraction best reply maps in which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-18 Hamidou Tembine , Raul Tempone , Pedro Vilanova

Mean-field analysis is an important tool for understanding dynamics on complex networks. However, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the question of whether mean-field predictions are accurate, and this is particularly true for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 James P. Gleeson , Sergey Melnik , Jonathan A. Ward , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha

We propose an efficient algorithm to solve inverse problems in the presence of binary clustered datasets. We consider the paradigmatic Hopfield model in a teacher student scenario, where this situation is found in the retrieval phase. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-17 Aurélien Decelle , Sungmin Hwang , Jacopo Rocchi , Daniele Tantari

Classical spin systems with nonadditive long-range interactions are studied in the microcanonical ensemble. It is expected that the entropy of such a system is identical to that of the corresponding mean-field model, which is called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-29 Takashi Mori

The derivation of effective macroscopic theories approximating microscopic systems of interacting particles is a major question in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. In these notes we present an approximation of systems made by many…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Chiara Saffirio

In the literature, existence of mean-field equilibria has been established for discrete-time mean field games under both the discounted cost and the average cost optimality criteria. In this paper, we provide a value iteration algorithm to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Berkay Anahtarci , Can Deha Kariksiz , Naci Saldi

Given a large number of homogeneous players that are distributed across three possible states, we consider the problem in which these players have to control their transition rates, while minimizing a cost. The optimal transition rates are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Leonardo Stella , Dario Bauso

We derive the formalism for steady state nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory in a real-time formalism along the Kadanoff-Baym contour. The resulting equations of motion are first transformed to Wigner coordinates (average and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. K. Freericks , V. M. Turkowski

Mean-field theory of non-interacting disordered electron systems is widely and successfully used to describe equilibrium properties of alloys in the whole range of disorder strengths. It, however, fails to take into account effects of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-23 V. Pokorny , V. Janis

Mean field approximation is a powerful technique to study the performance of large stochastic systems represented as $n$ interacting objects. Applications include load balancing models, epidemic spreading, cache replacement policies, or…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Sebastian Allmeier , Nicolas Gast

This thesis is devoted to studying aspects of real-time nonequilibrium dynamics in quantum field theory by implementing an initial value formulation of quantum field theory. The main focus is on the linear relaxation of mean fields and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shang-Yung Wang

We present a generalized dynamical mean-field approach for the nonequilibrium physics of a strongly correlated system in the presence of a time-dependent external field. The Keldysh Green's function formalism is used to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Schmidt , H. Monien